Nico and the Batfam (discontinued)

6. Suspicious Brothers

<<Jason POV>>

Bruce signaled to us to leave the room. We all followed Tim who was in the lead.

"Where are we going?" I finally asked, breaking the silence.

"My room," answered Tim, "I placed a tiny camera on the dresser before we left."

We finally reached Tim's room and walked over to his computer. He turned it on and put in his password. The computer opened on the home page and Tim went to the camera section. He turned the camera in Nico's room on and an image came on the computer.

Nico was sitting on his bed with his knees on his chest. Bruce was sitting next to Nico looking at him.

"I need you to tell me what's wrong Nico, I can't help you otherwise."

Nico looked at Bruce in a curious sort of way.

"It's like nobody has every asked him how he's feeling and how they can help." Said Dick.

"Nico, what did you dream about?" Asks Bruce.

At this Nico's face became guarded. 'What could he have to hide?' I thought.

He turned his eyes to Bruce cautiously and said,

"My sister."

Bruce looked at Nico, I could tell that he knew Nico was lying but he didn't press him, he then leaned over to Nico, and gave him a hug. Nico became rigid, as if he didn't like physical contact. Bruce stood up and went over to the door and closed it. Nico just sat there.

We looked away from the screen as we saw Bruce entering the room. He looked at Tim and Dick, then he noticed the screen and looked at it curiously.

"Hmm..." he said.

"Anything you think we should know Father?" Asked Damien, breaking the silence.

"Just that he was lying when he said his sister was the cause of his dream, and that he is really, and I mean really, cold. Almost as cold as snow." He said, never taking his eyes off the screen.

We turned back to the screen seeing Nico still sitting there. He got up and went to the desk. Alfred had placed two drawing pads, one Blue and one Green, pencils, colored pencils, and all the stuff you found on a normal desk. Nico sat there for a moment with his eyes closed. Then out of nowhere black and grey books showed up by Nico's hands. He opened the black book and turned to a page and began drawing. After 10 minutes he looked up and looked at the sketch pad.

From the angle of the camera we couldn't see what he had drawn but he closed it quickly. He put his elbows on the desk and put his head on his hands. He sat there for a minute before starting to shake. It took me a second to realize he was crying. He then took the grey sketch pad and opened it. He began drawing on it. He still had one elbow on the table and with the other hand he was drawing.

After he finished drawing whatever he was drawing, he looked at it, then he tore it off from the sketch pad and taped it on the wall in front of him. It was a drawing of two girls. One had curly brown hair, with gold eyes. She was wearing a purple t-shirt and jeans. The other had black hair, like Nico's, she also had green eyes. This girl was wearing a silver shirt, and silver camouflage pants. She also had a quiver on her back and was holding a bow. The one with curly hair had a sword at her side.

Nico looked at the picture, then went back to the black sketch book. He continued drawing in there.

By now Bruce had left after seeing the picture of the girls.

"Who do you think that is?" Asked Tim.

"I don't know, the one with black hair looks like Nico, it could be his sister. The other one though I have no idea whatsoever." Said Dick.

We looked back at the screen seeing Nico still drawing, by this time, he had fear in his eyes. I could see it clearly.

"He's...scared?" I said, confused.

"How do you know he's scared?" Asked Tim

"Just look at his eyes, he's terrified," answered Damien "I wonder what he's drawing..."

We looked back at the screen to see that Bruce was in the room with Nico. Nico hadn't noticed yet, and continued drawing. Bruce walked over to Nico and stood behind him. Bruce looked down at what Nico was drawing. I looked at his eyes waiting for emotions. When Bruce looked at what Nico was drawing, he first looked surprised, then turned to curious, then cautious, but then turned to something that I had never seen before. His eyes were full of fear. He looked at Nico then back at the drawing.

He slowly walked back toward the door. When he thought he was far enough he nocked on the door frame. Nico quickly closed his black sketch book and looked at Bruce.

"Hey, Nico. I'd like you to go with Alfred shopping for cloths." Bruce told him.

"Ok" Nico answered simply. He stood up and walked out of the door. Tim quickly turned off the camera and went to his page just in time as Nico walked past the room where we were all crowded in.

I heard as Nico walked downstairs and was greeted by Alfred. Later I listened while the front door opened, and closed. A few seconds later, the car doors opened and closed too. I looked at the others. For some reason, we all felt shaken.